EDEN, N.C. — When Brian Williams heads to the banks of the Dan River he sees the heart of his community. It’s a home to fish, a source of drinking water and, after years of hard work with the Dan ...

In the early 1840s, a group of businessmen in the Philadelphia area became aware of stories of untold wealth of cannel coal, a very special coal which would also yield coal oil, which existed in the ...

Today, we followed the Cooper River north, letting the water guide the story rather than a destination. Along the river sits a structure that has outlived its original purpose — a coal tipple built in ...

In 2010, a subsidiary of Australia-based mining giant Ambre Energy proposed building a similar coal terminal at Longview. Environmental groups fiercely opposed it, and in 2017 Washington’s Department ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Brian Williams heads to the banks of the Dan River he sees the heart of his community. It’s a home to fish, a source of ...

This coal tipple on the Cooper River was built in 1915. Once part of the region’s working waterfront, the abandoned structure now stands between history and modern development, slowly being reclaimed ...